Martius Torgannon's page

Current: HP 12
Current Non-Lethal: 0
Wounds: None

Status: Normal

Bombs: 5

Crossbow Bolts: 10

None

HP: 12
Initiative: +2
Speed: 30 ft, 20 ft in armor

Attack
BAB: +0
Melee: +2
Ranged: +2
CMB: +2

Defenses
AC: 15 FF: 13 T: 12
CMD: 14
Fort: +3
Ref: +4
Will: +1

Melee
Shortspear: +2, 1d6+2
Ranged
Light Crossbow: +2, 1d8, 19-20, range 80 ft
Shortspear: +2, 1d6+2, range 20 ft
Bomb: +2 touch, 1d6+4 fire, range 20 ft

Craft (alchemy) +8
Craft (carpentry) +8
Disable Device +6
Heal +3
Knowledge (arcana) +9
Knowledge (engineering) +9
Knowledge (history) +9
Knowledge (nature) +8
Profession (sailor) +3
Spellcraft +8

Ancient Explorer (Knowledge [history])
Mathematical Prodigy (Knowledge [engineering])

Brew Potion
Iron Will
Throw Anything
Toughness

Bonus Feat: Humans get a bonus feat at 1st level.

Skilled: Humans gain a bonus skill point at first level and one additional skill point at each level after that.

Alchemy:

Bomb 1d6:

Brew Potion:

Mutagen:

Throw Anything:

1st
Crafter's Fortune
Shield

1st
Comprehend Languages
Crafter's Fortune
Cure Light Wounds
Enlarge Person
Shield
Touch of the Sea

Studded Leather Armor
Shortspear
Light Crossbow
10 Crossbow Bolts
Alchemist's Kit
Formula Book
Carpenter's Tools
Surgeon's Tools
Healer's Kit
Explorer's Outfit
Backpack
Belt Pouch

10 gp

Age: 28 years
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 168 lb.
Appearance: Martius is a slightly short man in his late twenties with a somewhat scraggly beard and tied back hair. He seems a bit on the short size, but is a bit stocky due to his thick muscles. He seems to overly focus on things around him as he walks, almost stumbling into others.

Martius is an intelligent and athletic person, but somewhat oblivious. He typically becomes so focused on the things right in front of him that he misses what's around him. The fact that his dealings with various exotic chemicals and reagents has dulled some of his senses doesn't help.

He's an outgoing man when he pays attention and legitimately likes to socialize, but he can occasionally be blunt, not really understanding why others can simply accept the truth as is. Time has somewhat worn on him and he can slip into moments of depression, becoming quiet and interacting, but generally avoiding speech.

Martius is starting to become somewhat dependent on the extracts and mutagens that he prepares. He enjoys the rush and power that he feels while under their effects.

Martius grew up in the household of a construction manager in Westcrown. His father, Paden Torgannon, operated the small business, but somehow managed to be relatively successful in the declining city.

Slavery is rampant in Cheliax and Martius grew up surrounded by it. The distinction was made quickly clear between citizen and slave. He began to follow suit with what he saw from other children and berate and humiliate slaves for entertainment value. This stopped when his father found out what young Martius was doing. He punished the young child, forcing him to perform hard labor until Martius could do no more. As Martius cried, Paden looked down at his son, asking, “Do you understand what those people go through? They are not to ridiculed, but repected. Tell this to no one, Martius, but always remember that the pain others is never to be laughed at. Respect their contributions to our society.” It was years before Martius understood, but he followed his father’s instructions out of love.

As Martius grew, he was taught the skills that his family prized. Knowledge of the craft came easily to him and the work strengthened his young body. His mother, Vateria Torgannon, encounter the child to spread his knowledge to other sectors of his life. He pursued a number of different subjects in the extra afforded him by his family’s wealth and soon found a love of the study of alchemy. Wizardly patterns were abstract and bothered his practical mind, but the straightforward patterns of the alchemy intrigued him. He began to study the effects of various concoctions and elixirs effects on the world on the body and the world around him: acids to burn, salves to heal, potions to strengthen, and poisons to weaken. The power to change and manipulate his environment was all around him, contained in materials both mundane and wondrous.

His study into alchemy caused him to be blind to the activities of his father, would became increasingly caught up in the underground slavery opposition. The Torgannon family had long ago followed Aroden, and a deeply seated belief in the value of humanity. His father had long followed both Iomedae and Erastil, paying only lip service to Asmodeus, and tired of the pain and suffering inflicted on people that had so much more to offer society. Spurred by the Andoran revolt that occurred before Paden’s birth, Martius’ father began to help smuggle escaped slaves out of Cheliax. When Martius was thirteen, his father has caught hiding several escaped slaves in a partially completed building, most of which belonged to House Leroung. The noble house was outraged.
The hellknights burst into the family’s home that evening. He, his brother, Lucar, and his sister, Quillia, were taken while the knights interrogated his mother. Vateria spoke little, telling her children to look the other way and not look back. As he and his siblings were led away in chains, he remembers hearing his mother’s cries of pain. He attempted to seek comfort with his siblings, but was backhanded for moving out of place.

Investigations revealed the scope of his father’s operations. It had been growing for years and now encompassed several buildings along the walls that his father had built, using secret passages to move slaves out of the city. Paden’s holdings were confiscated and turned over to the city. Publicly, the passages were destroyed, the buildings turned over to House Leroung and the other houses of the city. Paden and Vateria were publicly executed by the Order of the Rack for treason against the state. Martius, Lucar, and Quillia were sold into slavery, Martius purchased by House Leroung, while his brother and sister were bought by others.

The nobles of House Leroung put Martius to work quickly as a porter. During one round, he was to carry a heavy stack of tomes for a noble of the house, one Serrivan Leroung. While carrying the books, he read the topics and took a chance, asking about the topics of the volumes. Serrivan nearly struck the slave for his impertinence, but paused for a moment to consider the slave’s words. The two began a conversation in which Martius’ knowledge became obvious to the scion of House Leroung. Serrivan had the slave added to his personal attaché, giving Martius access to considerable stores of knowledge.

During his time at House Leroung, Martius saw firsthand the treatment of the slaves that Cheliax was built on. The treatment bothered him as he remembered his father’s words. He came to hate his time as a slave. He wanted to pursue the topics he was researching even as he helped Serivan.

Martius never forgot about his brother and sister. Over the course of years, he was able to find out about their fates. Quillia had been sold to a noble of House Thrune and been taken from the city, but Lucar had been sold to a trader and worked in as a porter in Westcrown, similar to how he had. He eventually was able to meet his brother again as he carried about duties for his master. The meeting did not go well. Lucar had become bitter in his time as a slave, even to the point of resenting his family. He blamed their mother and father, and mocked Martius’ attempts to compare their situations. To Lucar, Martius had received something more than he, and Martius’ situation was much more comfortable than his. Martius left with confused feelings, hating his brother’s response, but understanding it all the same.

After several years of service in House Leroung, Martius was to come with Serrivar on sea trip to investigate reports that a rare tome had appeared that Serrivar desired. They boarded the ship, the Devil’s Promise, and sailed for Absalom with a heavy escort. On route, the ship was taken by a small fleet of Andoran ships. The battle was fierce, the escorts falling quickly to the sudden assault. As Andoran marines boarded the ship, Serrivar attempted to use his slave as a shield, but Martius saw his chance. He overpowered the noble and greeted his saviors. His long-time master, was taken, and presumably executed, while the slaves on board the vessel were freed.

He traveled with them back to Andoran and spent a considerable amount of time there. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he decided to rebuild by offering his skills to the navy. He felt he owed it to them. He enjoyed the life at sea, but the structure of a military began to get to him. It reminded him too much of the life of slavery he had just escaped from. He often chafed under orders, but stuck with it for longer than he might have otherwise due to a lingering sense of obligation. However, as he saw opportunities to free others slip by due to national concerns, he grew disillusioned with the service. When orders had been passed down to let another Chelaxian ship slip by, he confronted the captain. The conversation grew heated and he had to be dragged away. Martius spent the rest of the trip in brig and was discharged from the service when the boat made port.

Martius took the money he had saved from the service and began to travel about the Inner Sea, avoiding Cheliax and Androan out of fear and disgust respectively. For a time, he thought of joining the Pathfinder Society, but the idea of having to work for another kept him away. Thoughts of his family became increasingly common and the guilt of his freedom began to wear him down. He dove into his pursuits, studying alchemy and history to free his mind of those problems; to try and ignore them.

He recently heard of the ancient civilization of Ghol Gan and the strange plants present in the various islands of the Shackles. The thought of being on the sea once again appealed to him, so he set out for Port Peril to see if he could catch anything interesting.

The character is becoming increasingly dependent on his mutagens, to the point that a separate personality is slowly forming. Over time, the changes rear their head while he's under the effects of his mutagens.

The goal is to have Martius continue to persue alchemist until he qualifies for Master Chymst.